Safety-harness for children.



No. 703,483. Patented July I I902;

c. SCHBEGK. I SAFETY HARNESS FOR CHILDREN.

(Application filed Apr. 2 8; 1902.)

(No Model.) v

I I I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

CONRAD J. SOHRECK, OF GALLIPOLIS, OHIO.

SAFETY-HARNESS FOR CHILDREN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 703,483, dated July 1, 1902. Application filed April 23, 1902. SerialNo. 104,370. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CONRAD J. ScHREcI aj citizen of the United States, residing atGaL lipolis, in the county of Gallia and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Safety- Harnessfor Childrernof which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is the production of a device which will prevent children falling from high chairs, cabs, swings, and similar localities; and it consists in a harness adapted to be placed upon the child and with means whereby it may be detachably connected to the chair, cab, or other support, as hereinafter shown and described, and sp ecifled in the claims.

The device may be employed in connection with whatever is employed to support'the child-such as high chairs, cabsorperambulators, swings, or other similar devices; but

for the purpose of illustration it is shown in the drawings arranged to support a child in a high chair.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a child in ahigh chairwith the improved safetyharness applied. 'Fig- 2, is an enlarged p'e r{ spective view of the harness' detached; The device consists of a girth-strap 10, hav-:

secured around the waist of thechild, and a shoulder-strap 1 2,adaptedto engage the shoulders of the child and extending downward and attached to the girth-strap where itcrosses it, as at 13 14, with buckles and straps 15 16 at its extremities to provide means for attachment to the chair, cab, swing, or what-. ever supports the child to effectually prevent. the child accidentally falling therefrom.

The girth-strap 10 will be long enough to fit the largest child, and the depending ends 15. 16 will be long enoughtoenable them to be attached to the support at any convenient point-as, for instance,tothe upperi {rounds 17 of the chair 18, as in Fig. 1.

nected, so that generally no means other than already in existence will be required; but

where such means are not present it will be an easy matter to provide screw-eyes or other suitablemeans to engage the straps. This ficient for the purpose intended and can be applied infany locality where required.

In orderto provide for the adjustment of the shoulder-strap t0 fit children of difierent sizes, it may be looped, as indicated at 19, and provided with a buckle or slide 20.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a childs safety-harness comprising a girth-strap havin g means for adj ustably anddetachably connecting its ends, and a. shoulder-strap reversely and intermediately engaging said girth;straps'at' opposite points and with depending ends, and means carried by said depending ends for connection to the support I 'for the'child; substantially as described. ing a buckle 11 at one end and adapted tobe 7 "2. As a'new article of manufacture, a childs jsafetygharness, comprising a girth-strap having means for adj ustably and detachably convnecting'sits ends, and a shoulder strap reversely and intermediately engaging said girth-straps at opposite points, and with dependingj'ends, and buckles and straps upon said depending ends, substantially as deiscribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as Tmy ownI have hereto affixed my signature in makes a very simple, complete, and easily applied and: adjusted device which is very ef- 

